Hello.
I'm afraid I'm rather new to perl, and my understanding of it so far has been based upon a 'trial-and-error' approach, so please bear with me.

I'm trying to execute a script to extract an openstreetmap planet.osm file into a postgreSQL databse. The script calls on several modules, which I have so far managed to install without too much difficulty. However, I have stumbled across an error that I am unsure how to solve.

The error in this case relates to the planet.pm module, which uses the 'strict' pragma. When executing planetosm-to-db.pl the following error is returned:

Global symbol "$VERBOSE" requires explicit package name at /System/Lib
+rary/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Geo/OSM/Planet.pm line 165
+.
Global symbol "$DEBUG" requires explicit package name at /System/Libra
+ry/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Geo/OSM/Planet.pm line 165.

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Line 165 reads:

print STDERR "Mirror OSM Data from $url\n" if $VERBOSE || $DEBUG;

which I altered to

print STDERR "Mirror OSM Data from $url\n" if my($VERBOSE) || my($DEBUG);

resulting in more explicit package name errors – on lines 175, 180, 195, 210, 237, 241, 243, 245, 259, 274, 281. Editing these lines in a similar manner returns the following error on lines 241, 243, 245, 259: 
"my" variable $DEBUG masks earlier declaration in same scope at /Syste
+m/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Geo/OSM/Planet.pm lin
+e 241.
"my" variable $VERBOSE masks earlier declaration in same scope at /Sys
+tem/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Geo/OSM/Planet.pm l
+ine 241.

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I understand that I have too many instances of "my" but am not sure why, and therefore unsure how to proceed in order to get the module to run when I execute the script. Any explanation of what I have done wrong – and why it isn't working at present – would be very helpful. Thanks.

In reply to "my" variables masking earlier declaration by pinkybrown

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